Emiliano Sala: Fifa orders Cardiff to pay £5.3m first instalment of transfer fee to Nantes

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Cardiff have been ordered to pay the first instalment of the transfer fee for Emiliano Sala, who died before he could play a single game for the Welsh club. The Argentinian, 28, died when the light aircraft he was travelling in from France to the UK crashed into the English Channel on January 21 of this year, two days after the Bluebirds, then in the Premier League, had announced his signing from French club Nantes. Nantes demanded that Cardiff should pay the first instalment of the overall £15million transfer fee, equating to six million euros or £5.3million, something the Welsh club contest on the grounds that Sala's revised contract was not signed and that his playing registration was not complete.

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